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To: Tommaso who wrote (24935)3/4/2005 11:17:09 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (7) | Respond to of 116555
 
T, But the main reason people lose lots of money in futures is the same reason a guy with $100 loses all of it when he sits down to a poker table with $10 antes. He doesn't have the capital to stay the course. If you bought stocks on 5% margin with all of your capital, you wouldn't be around long.

But, for fully paid up players, commodities return more than stock indices and are less risky. And return more than resource stocks and are less risky.